MichaelJBrooker
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I'm currently trying to set up some external effects with Ableton, and I'm having a slight issue. I've read the official documentation, but it's possible I'm misunderstanding something.
I have a guitar pedal (Shallow Water) that I'd like to use on soft synths, direct lined guitars and mix buses within Ableton. There's a cable running from the pedal's "input" to my audio interface's output (Focusrite 18i8). The pedal's output is then running to the Focusrite's input number 1. Lastly my guitar is going in to Focusrite input number 2 for these testing purposes.
Within Ableton I'm using the "External Audio Effect" tool to route the effect back in to the DAW. The problem is that when I play live with the pedal on everything sounds fine, but once I turn the pedal off and play the recording back the effect isn't in place. Just dry guitar.
I also tried setting the External effect in it's own audio track, then setting the armed track as a send to it, but that gives me the same result (wet while pedal is on, dry recording after the fact).
I've attached screenshots of both setups.
Not really sure what I'm doing wrong. Should I be setting the Pedal Up in a return track? Or am I just routing wrong? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
I have a guitar pedal (Shallow Water) that I'd like to use on soft synths, direct lined guitars and mix buses within Ableton. There's a cable running from the pedal's "input" to my audio interface's output (Focusrite 18i8). The pedal's output is then running to the Focusrite's input number 1. Lastly my guitar is going in to Focusrite input number 2 for these testing purposes.
Within Ableton I'm using the "External Audio Effect" tool to route the effect back in to the DAW. The problem is that when I play live with the pedal on everything sounds fine, but once I turn the pedal off and play the recording back the effect isn't in place. Just dry guitar.
I also tried setting the External effect in it's own audio track, then setting the armed track as a send to it, but that gives me the same result (wet while pedal is on, dry recording after the fact).
I've attached screenshots of both setups.
Not really sure what I'm doing wrong. Should I be setting the Pedal Up in a return track? Or am I just routing wrong? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!